“God is dead; God remains dead. And we have killed him!”Friedrich Nietzsche · Așa grăit-a Zarathustra · 1885 · Partea a II-a, Despre predicatorii de iluzii (și Prologul, Partea I)
When man kills the absolute foundation of morality, inherited values lose their support and must be rebuilt by himself.
The line does not state a philosophical thesis but a cultural condition: belief in God has become implausible for modern Europeans, and the cause is not an argument but humanity's own development. The mechanism is simple: once the absolute ground of morality disappears, inherited values lose their support and must be rebuilt. A concrete example is the twentieth-century crisis of meaning, when people kept Christian morals without believing in them.
Why it matters It resonates with anyone searching for meaning after losing faith or inherited certainties.